To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
Ver. 47. To make a difference.] Ministers also in their discourses should put a difference, and take out "the precious from the vile," Jer 15:19 as did Zuinglius; who, when he inveighed most vehemently against sin, would usually come in with this clause, Probe vir, haec nihil ad te, This is not intended to thee, thou godly man.